title: Effects of a nursing pain programme on patient outcomes.
abstract: The effectiveness of a continuing pain education program, directed to surgical cancer nurses, was investigated in a pretest posttest controlled intervention study. ANCOVA for repeated measures revealed that the programme resulted in a lower pain intensity of surgical colon and breast cancer patients (p = 0.02). However, no effects were found on pain duration, sleepless hours as a result of pain, state anxiety, mood disturbances, and duration of hospitalization. It is assumed that because the pain CE programme had a moderate impact on pain intensity, this had no consequences for the other outcome variables mentioned.
authors.affiliation: Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Francke
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Garssen
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Luiken
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: De Schepper
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grypdonck
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Abu-Saad
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000193:education*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation